Dimity

See also: dimity

English

Etymology

The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.^[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Surname”)

Proper noun

Dimity

A female given name of modern usage.
- 1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,
  'Raffle books,' she announced.
  
  'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.
A surname.
- 1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23, page 134:
  The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.

References

^ Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, Kate Hardcastle, editor (2006) “Dimity”, in A Dictionary of First Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 76–77.

[1] Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, Kate Hardcastle, editor (2006) “Dimity”, in A Dictionary of First Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 76–77.

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